Dillon and Christie

Our sweet family and life adventures.

A Little Christmas Story

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I wanted to record some of our experiences from the past month because it was special to us this year!  (I got permission from Dillon to share this ;) Finances have been up and down this year, and we were[Read More…]

Christmas Eve!

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Christmas Eve afternoon was spent at Rachelle’s house for a great program and dinner.  It was a lot of fun and I wish I wasn’t lazy and had taken out my camera, but I didn’t.  I always like it because[Read More…]

Making “Corn” Warmers

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Grandma Rita gave us a corn (white hominy) warmer for Christmas and my kids love it!  So I told them they could each make our own.  Devon was especially excited!  You can get the white hominy at Winco for $0.52/lb. [Read More…]

Gingerbread Men

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We invited our friends over to make some gingerbread men this year.  My kids were looking forward to having them over for a couple weeks and were beyond excited.  (and hello—can we say obviously messing around with my manual settings[Read More…]

A Christmas-y Post

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(I’m not finished posting about Hawaii, but Karl is busy and has a bunch of pics I took on his camera for the day I’m waiting to post, so you aren’t getting out of it, it’s just postponed!) No tears[Read More…]

Hawaii: Day Four (part II)

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The craters were HUGE on top of the volcanoes! Super interesting!  Remember, I took a lot of pictures for my kids’ sake, but Pele’s hair really was awesome! It was raining at this point.  We went inside this lava tube. [Read More…]